diff --git a/mod.ts b/mod.ts
index 2db3dc2..e301b48 100644
--- a/mod.ts
+++ b/mod.ts
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ export default AO3;
 import Chapter from "./src/classes/Chapter.ts";
 import Search from "./src/classes/Search.ts";
 import Work from "./src/classes/Work.ts";
-export { AO3, Chapter, Search, Work };
+const VERSION = "v0.2.0";
+export { AO3, Chapter, Search, VERSION, Work };
diff --git a/src/classes/AO3.ts b/src/classes/AO3.ts
index 7ce7d2e..75e6af4 100644
--- a/src/classes/AO3.ts
+++ b/src/classes/AO3.ts
@@ -3,73 +3,23 @@ import { ID } from "../types.d.ts";
 import { DOMParser } from "https://deno.land/x/deno_dom@v0.1.36-alpha/deno-dom-wasm.ts";
 import { HTMLDocument } from "../types.d.ts";
 import Search, { SearchParameters } from "./Search.ts";
-import {
-    CookieJar,
-    wrapFetch,
-} from "https://deno.land/x/another_cookiejar@v5.0.1/mod.ts";
+import { newSession, Options } from "../utils/http.ts";
 
 export default class AO3 {
-    session: {
-        get: (path: string) => Promise<Response>;
-        post: (
-            path: string,
-            payload: unknown,
-        ) => Promise<Response>;
-    };
+    session: ReturnType<typeof newSession>;
     DOMParser = new DOMParser();
-    fetch: typeof fetch;
-    cookieJar: CookieJar;
-    #headers: Record<string, string>;
 
     /**
      * a representation of AO3 in class form
      */
-    constructor(opts?: {
-        url?: string;
-    }) {
-        this.cookieJar = new CookieJar();
-        this.fetch = wrapFetch({ cookieJar: this.cookieJar });
-        this.#headers = {
-            "User-Agent":
-                "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0",
-        };
-        this.session = {
-            get: async (path: string) => {
-                const res = await this.fetch(
-                    opts?.url ?? "https://archiveofourown.org/" + path,
-                    {
-                        headers: this.#headers,
-                    },
-                );
-                if (res.status > 300) {
-                    console.log(res);
-                    throw new Error("Failed request, probably rate-limited");
-                }
-                return res;
-            },
-
-            post: async (
-                path: string,
-                // deno-lint-ignore no-explicit-any
-                payload: any,
-                headers?: string,
-            ) => {
-                const res = await this.fetch(
-                    opts?.url ?? "https://archiveofourown.org/" + path,
-                    {
-                        "credentials": "include",
-                        headers: Object.assign(headers ?? {}, this.#headers),
-                        method: "POST",
-                        body: payload,
-                    },
-                );
-                if (res.status > 300) {
-                    console.log(res);
-                    throw new Error("Failed request, probably rate-limited");
-                }
-                return res;
-            },
-        };
+    constructor(opts?: Options) {
+        if (opts && !opts.headers) {
+            opts.headers = {
+                "User-Agent":
+                    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0",
+            };
+        }
+        this.session = newSession(opts ?? {});
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/utils/http.ts b/src/utils/http.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06b2faa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/http.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+// custom fetch wrappers.. for reasons
+import {
+    CookieJar,
+    wrapFetch,
+} from "https://deno.land/x/another_cookiejar@v5.0.1/mod.ts";
+
+const cookieJar = new CookieJar();
+
+const wrappedFetch = wrapFetch({
+    cookieJar,
+});
+
+const defaultOptions = {
+    url: "https://archiveofourown.org/",
+    headers: {
+        "User-Agent":
+            `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0`,
+    },
+};
+
+export interface Options {
+    url?: string;
+    headers?: Record<string, string>;
+}
+
+const newSession = (opts: Options) => {
+    opts = Object.assign(defaultOptions, opts);
+    return {
+        get: async (path: string) => {
+            const res = await wrappedFetch(
+                opts.url + path,
+                {
+                    headers: opts.headers,
+                },
+            );
+            if (res.status > 300) {
+                console.log(res);
+                throw new Error("Failed request, probably rate-limited");
+            }
+            return res;
+        },
+        post: async (
+            path: string,
+            // deno-lint-ignore no-explicit-any
+            payload: any,
+            headers?: string,
+        ) => {
+            const res = await wrappedFetch(
+                opts.url + path,
+                {
+                    "credentials": "include",
+                    headers: Object.assign(headers ?? {}, opts.headers),
+                    method: "POST",
+                    body: payload,
+                },
+            );
+            if (res.status > 300) {
+                console.log(res);
+                throw new Error("Failed request, probably rate-limited");
+            }
+            return res;
+        },
+    };
+};
+
+export { newSession };
diff --git a/tests/index.ts b/tests/index.ts
index 0220179..463bd24 100644
--- a/tests/index.ts
+++ b/tests/index.ts
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ import AO3 from "../src/classes/AO3.ts";
 import workTest from "./work.ts";
 import chaptersTest from "./chapter.ts";
 import searchTest from "./search.ts";
+import miscTest from "./misc.ts";
 
 const ao3 = new AO3();
 
 await workTest(ao3);
 await chaptersTest(ao3);
 await searchTest(ao3);
+await miscTest(ao3);
diff --git a/tests/misc.ts b/tests/misc.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f64ef4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/misc.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import AO3 from "../mod.ts";
+import { assert } from "https://deno.land/std@0.167.0/testing/asserts.ts";
+
+export default function test(ao3: AO3) {
+    Deno.test("misc", async (test) => {
+        await test.step("alternate instances", async () => {
+            const ao3 = new AO3({
+                url: "https://squidgeworld.org/",
+            });
+
+            const work = await ao3.getWork(34491);
+            await work.init();
+
+            assert(
+                work.name === "Implementing OTW's Code To Build SquidgeWorld",
+                "failed to get a work from alternate instance",
+            );
+        });
+    });
+}